Comelec mulls raps vs Susano for holding CF cards
By Marie A. Surbano and Aytch S. de la Cruz 05/25/2010 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is contemplating if it should hold accountable former Quezon City lawmaker Mary Ann Susano for possessing some compact flash cards that were used in the May 10 national polls. According to Comelec spokesman James Jimenez, the poll body will study what legal actions it could take against Susano for showing to Congress that she had in her possession CF cards that apparently contained evidence that fraud had attended the general elections last May 10. “We are still studying what is the best strategy in the case of this congressman with the CF cards. Two things are certain: She has CF cards in her possession and she is not authorized to have CF cards in her possession. These will be evaluated and we will come up with a proper legal action to address this situation,” Jimenez told reporters. He, though, said the Comelec has not or has or not yet decided to form an investigating panel that be tasked to look into the Susano case, unlike in the poll-related cases in Cagayan de Oro City and Antipolo City which investigations have been delegated by the poll body to probe panels that have been created for such purpose. During the hearing of the House committee on electoral reform and suffrage on poll fraud allegations last Friday, Susano produced at least two flashcards and showed it to Smartmatic Asia-Pacific president Cesar Flores. When asked by Flores how she got hold of the flashcards, she declined to answer and instead asked the former why the cards, which were supposed to store data of the elections, were empty. In another poll fraud-related issue, Malacañang also yesterday welcomed developments between Makati City Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr. and former Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita after Locsin reportedly took out Ermita in his list of those having a hand in the cropping of election fraud whistle-blower he dubbed as “Koala Bear.” In a phone interview with reporters, Ermita categorically denied that he, along with losing Manila mayoral candidate and former Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Lito Atienza, and current National Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales were behind “Koala Bear,” a masked man who recently went on broadcast media to allegedly spill what he knows about the vote-rigging that went on in the automated national elections last May 10..... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100525nat1.html |
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